Technical Facilities Manager | Permanent | Full-Time | Dublin 15 | Up to €80,000 DOE + 10% Bonus
Key Points
- Salary: Up to €80,000 depending on experience
- Bonus: 10% annual performance bonus
- Location: Dublin 15
- Hours: Monday to Thursday 8:00am–4:30pm | Friday 8:00am–3:30pm
- Working Week: 39 hours
- Work Environment: Fully site-based within a regulated, technically demanding facility
- Benefits: 5% employer pension contribution, healthcare contribution, on-site parking, on-site canteen and career development opportunities
- Reporting to: Account Director
- Focus: Hard Services, engineering leadership, compliance and asset reliability
Job & Company Overview
Are you a Technical Facilities Manager who understands that successful Hard Services management is about much more than responding when something breaks?
We are recruiting an experienced Technical Facilities Manager to take responsibility for engineering and Hard Services delivery within a highly regulated facility in Dublin 15.
Reporting to the Account Director, you’ll lead the people, contractors and maintenance programmes responsible for keeping essential building services safe, compliant and operational.
This is a role with genuine technical ownership.
You’ll oversee mechanical and electrical services, HVAC, plumbing, fire and life safety systems, lifts and building infrastructure while managing Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM), reactive works, compliance, budgets and contractor performance.
You’ll also be the person expected to provide leadership when the unexpected happens. When critical equipment fails or an operational issue develops, you’ll assess the situation, coordinate the appropriate response and ensure risks and disruption are managed effectively.
The position requires an experienced Facilities Management professional who combines technical judgement with people leadership and commercial awareness – someone who can understand the engineering challenge, lead the response and maintain confidence with the client.
Responsibilities
At a Glance
As Technical Facilities Manager, you will:
- Take ownership of Hard Services delivery across the site
- Lead engineering and maintenance teams
- Manage specialist technical contractors
- Oversee PPM and reactive maintenance programmes
- Maintain the reliability of critical building assets
- Ensure statutory and Health & Safety compliance
- Manage contractor KPIs and SLAs
- Control maintenance budgets and operational expenditure
- Lead the response to critical equipment failures
- Support energy management and sustainability initiatives
- Identify opportunities to improve technical service delivery
Hard Services & Engineering
You’ll take responsibility for the safe, reliable and efficient operation of technical building services across the facility.
Your remit will include:
- Mechanical and electrical building services
- HVAC
- Plumbing systems
- Fire detection and life safety systems
- Lifts
- Building fabric and infrastructure
- Associated critical assets
Rather than simply monitoring maintenance activity, you’ll need to understand how these systems are performing and whether the maintenance strategy supporting them is effective.
You’ll work with engineers and specialist contractors to assess technical issues, prioritise works and make informed decisions that protect asset reliability and operational continuity.
Planned & Reactive Maintenance
A strong preventative maintenance programme is central to this position.
You’ll oversee PPM schedules, ensuring planned works are completed correctly and within the required timescales while maintaining accurate maintenance and compliance records.
You’ll also manage reactive maintenance activity, ensuring faults are appropriately prioritised and resolved without unnecessary disruption to operations.
When recurring failures or performance issues emerge, you’ll look beyond the immediate repair to understand the underlying cause and identify a more sustainable solution.
Engineering Team Leadership
You’ll provide leadership and direction to engineering and maintenance personnel, ensuring everyone understands their priorities, responsibilities and expected standards.
You’ll allocate work, monitor performance and provide technical support while encouraging accountability and professional development within the team.
This position requires someone comfortable making decisions and providing clear direction, particularly when operational pressures are high.
You’ll also work closely with the Account Director and wider operational teams, ensuring technical priorities support the overall requirements of the site.
Specialist Contractor Management
A range of specialist contractors will support the delivery of Hard Services.
You’ll manage these relationships from an operational and performance perspective, ensuring contractors deliver safely and in accordance with agreed service levels.
You’ll monitor:
- Contractor performance
- KPIs and SLAs
- Technical standards
- Certifications
- Insurance documentation
- Health & Safety compliance
- Quality of completed works
You’ll also review quotations and proposed works, ensuring recommendations are technically appropriate and commercially reasonable.
The ability to challenge suppliers constructively while maintaining productive professional relationships will be important.
Compliance, Safety & Risk
Working within a regulated environment means technical compliance cannot be treated as an administrative exercise.
You’ll ensure maintenance activities meet statutory requirements, Health & Safety legislation and internal governance standards.
Your responsibilities will include maintaining compliance records, supporting audits, conducting or coordinating risk assessments and ensuring statutory inspections are completed when required.
You’ll need the confidence to identify potential risks, challenge unsafe practices and ensure corrective actions are completed.
Incident & Critical Failure Management
When critical equipment fails, you’ll be expected to lead the technical response.
You’ll assess the immediate operational and safety implications, coordinate engineers and contractors and ensure appropriate stakeholders remain informed while the issue is being resolved.
Once normal operations have been restored, you’ll support root-cause analysis and identify any corrective actions required to reduce the likelihood of recurrence.
This aspect of the role requires sound technical judgement, clear communication and the ability to remain composed when decisions need to be made quickly.
Commercial & Budget Management
Technical performance needs to be balanced with responsible financial management.
You’ll manage maintenance expenditure, review contractor quotations and monitor costs while ensuring required engineering and compliance standards are never compromised.
You’ll work with suppliers and internal stakeholders to assess where expenditure is necessary, where efficiencies can be achieved and where longer-term investment may provide better value than repeated reactive repairs.
You’ll also monitor contractor and service performance against established KPIs and SLAs.
Energy, Sustainability & Improvement
You’ll actively contribute to improving how technical services are delivered.
Working with operational teams and service providers, you’ll identify opportunities to improve building performance, reduce unnecessary energy consumption and strengthen the efficiency of maintenance activities.
This may involve reviewing maintenance strategies, analysing recurring faults, improving processes or supporting wider sustainability and energy-management initiatives.
Requirements
Essential Experience
To be considered for this position, you should have:
- Minimum 10 years’ experience within a regulated Facilities Management environment
- Strong experience managing Hard Services or technical facilities operations
- Previous experience leading engineering or maintenance teams
- Proven contractor and specialist service provider management experience
- Experience managing PPM and reactive maintenance programmes
- Strong understanding of statutory compliance and Health & Safety
- Experience managing SLAs and KPIs
- Strong client relationship management experience
- Experience managing maintenance budgets and operational costs
- Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities
- Strong Microsoft Office skills
Technical Knowledge
You’ll need a broad understanding of modern building services, including:
- HVAC
- Mechanical building services
- Electrical building services
- Plumbing
- Fire detection and life safety systems
- Building fabric
- Planned Preventative Maintenance
- Reactive maintenance
- Statutory compliance
- Asset management
You don’t necessarily need to come from a trade background.
A trade or Facilities Management qualification would be advantageous, but what matters most is having sufficient technical knowledge and practical FM experience to confidently lead engineering services, question proposed solutions and make informed decisions.
Regulated Facilities Experience
This isn’t an entry point into technical Facilities Management.
The site requires someone who already understands the discipline involved in operating within a regulated environment where documentation, compliance, maintenance standards and asset reliability are closely controlled.
Experience within environments such as pharmaceuticals, healthcare, manufacturing, data centres, commercial property or other regulated facilities will therefore be particularly relevant.
Leadership & Stakeholder Management
Technical expertise alone won’t be enough.
You’ll need to communicate effectively with engineers, contractors, operational teams, senior management and client stakeholders.
We’re looking for someone who can establish credibility with technical teams while also explaining issues, risks and recommendations clearly to people who may not have an engineering background.
You’ll be comfortable setting expectations, addressing performance concerns and taking ownership when difficult operational decisions are required.
Commercial Awareness
You’ll understand that effective Facilities Management involves balancing reliability, compliance, service quality and cost.
Previous experience managing maintenance budgets, reviewing quotations, monitoring contractor expenditure and making commercially informed maintenance decisions is essential.
Who This Role Would Suit
This opportunity could be particularly relevant to an experienced:
- Technical Facilities Manager
- Technical Services Manager
- Hard Services Manager
- Facilities Manager with substantial technical responsibilities
- Engineering Manager working within Facilities Management
Your current title is less important than your experience.
We’re looking for someone who has already taken meaningful responsibility for technical facilities services within a regulated environment and is capable of leading both people and engineering performance.
Important Information
Salary
- Up to €80,000 per annum DOE
- 10% annual performance bonus
Hours of Work
- Monday to Thursday: 8:00am–4:30pm
- Friday: 8:00am–3:30pm
- 39 hours per week
Location
- Dublin 15
- Fully site-based position
Benefits
- 10% annual performance bonus
- 5% employer pension contribution
- Healthcare contribution
- On-site parking
- On-site canteen
- Career development and progression opportunities
Apply Now
If you have extensive experience managing Hard Services within a regulated Facilities Management environment and can combine technical knowledge with strong leadership, commercial judgement and a clear focus on compliance, we look forward to receiving your application.
At Hall Recruitment, we’re dedicated to building diverse and authentic workplaces. We also know that excellent candidates rarely match 100% of a job description. If you meet around 70% of the criteria for this role, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
